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curious feature OF the disaster is found in the
fact that the entire bridge went down with the
wreck. Not scrap OF iron remained attached to
the abutments, and but for the chasm and the
wreck beneath there Is nothing to indicate that a
prdge Tncc The sn6 an3s =, t OF the
Completely shut out from view. Lying BY the
side OF one Of the splintered cars was one OF the
clean, new fracture. through IT'S entire breadth at
the point OF junction OF two Of its parts This
Rirder was composed OF two parallel plates
Of wrought iron, and the whole securely
bolted. The opinion Is expressed by many who
have personally inspected the wreck that the
breaking OF this gtrder was the cause OF the dis
aster, but there Is much doubt as to the cause OF
the breaking OF the glrdef. IL has been stated by
some that there was jarIing and humping SEM
saIt0n Just previous TO the crash, which gives
color TO the theory that the fourth car the st TO
60 through the btidge was derailed and thrown
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came TO full stop, and rose from his
seat at the instrument. Tableaul Al
though he had paid no heed to Liszt's
performance. Nicholas Alexandrevich
missed the sound of the piano, and sent
one of his chamberlains to ask the artist
why he had ceased playing; whether he
was indisposed, or the piano had not been
properly tuned. Liszt's stesly gray eyes
flashed with righteous indignation as he
replied: "The Gear we'll knows that
whilst he is speaking, every other voice,
even that OF music is bound to be mute -
So saying, he turned his back on the
astounded official and abruptly left the
room. Everybody present expected that
the maestro would receive his passport
the very first thing the next morning
with the peremptory order, on the part
of the Minister of Police, to quit Russian
territory within four-and. twenty hours
DO the surprise of the Court, however
Gear Nicholas took in good part the
severe reproof administered to him by
the fearless pianist, to whom he sent 9
costly gift the next day.-Music ana
Manners, by W. Beatty Kingston.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
A SIMPLE DEED OF KINDNESS

A SIMPLE DEED OF KINDNESS.
1t takes little degree of thoughtful
ness even to remember to drop into the
"hospital box" the papers we have fin
ished reading or to send little money
or some flowers to the Flower Mission.
We have no realizing sense at all of the
meaning those simple acts may have to
the recipients, but the poor bed ridden
sufferer seizes the paper with joy and in
hales the flowers perfume with thankful
ness.
A little woman had lain sick for weeks
in her home in one of the divisions of
Chicago. The doctor had come in the
morning and in the evening, and felt of
her pulse and left some medicine and
gone away, for as many weeks as his pa
tent had been in her bed. Her husband
had come in from his work at the close
of each day, and had prepared his meal,
had carried something to the patient lit
tie sufferer, which she would taste in the
daintiest way and then close her eyes.
The nights dragged along as the little
clock on the shelf went galloping away,
the hands passing the hour mark with an
extra click, as il to gain more strength for
the next hour.
The door, bell had been muffied; and
even the children in the neighborhood
passed the place on tiptoe, and muffied
their laughter and shouts till they reached
the corner. 1t got to be such a routine
that the neighbors called in mechanical
way. The temperature was stationary;
and the sunlight came through the win
dow curtains in feeble manner, as If it
was weary of falling across the pillow
where the little pale face was always the
same. One day, strange hands out in the
woodlands about one of the suburban
towns gathered some flowers. They found
their way into the city, and indirectly
were sent to the sick-room. The breeze
came in at the window with the sunshine,
and the two got in among the flowers and
carried the perfume to the sick pillow.
The eyes of the patient opened, and a
smile came over the wan features, and
then the wan lips moved and the hands
were clasped. Somehow, the woman
grew better and the home brighter; and,
in few days she sat by the window, and
little later she was on her feet, and she
and the bird in the cage sang together.
1t was only that some one had thought.
Chicago Mail.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
WOMEN OF THE FRONTIER.

The wife of recent Governor of far
Western State used to take her blankets
and go cautiously out, after nighttall, to
some sheltered nook, there to sleep with
the stars for company. Her husband
was obliged to make long freighting trips
to some distant mining camp. She has
recently presided in her husbands home
at the State Capital while he filled the
highest Office in the State. And that
Capital has sprung from few dugouts
to $4,000 inhabitants since her days and
nights of danger on the river bluff, and
her children, yet in their teens, have been
enjoying tie educational advantages of a
State University. Another brave woman,
after ward the wife OF a county judge,
was seized by an Indian lover, who in
tended to place her upon his pony and
carry her away with him. She gave him
a quick blow with the rolling-pin that
she was using, then pushed him with all
her might out of the door and against his
pony. Then she snatched her rifle, took
the cap-box from her pocket, where she
always carried it, and, fitting cap to
her gun, aimed at the Indians heart. In
the meantime he had mounted his pony,
and now fell upon his face on the pony's
neck. The cap snapped, fortunately, but
she pursued him, determined to kill him.
She was good markswoman, frequently
killing antelopes and other game. The
Indian, seeing her determined air, fed.
Her husband said that il she had killed
him there would have been no escape for
them from the fury of the savages, who
were camping near in large numbers, his
only conveyance being slow ox-team.-
Mrs. 0. o. Howard, in daughters OF
| America"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
TYRANNICAL GIRLS.

Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox says: "It is
a sad commentary on American society
and American manners that SO many
bright and otherwise charming young
girls are allowed to tyrannize over their
fathers and mothers, and that the parents
seem to feel sort OF servile pride in be-
ing eclipsed by their own offspring.
know an almost innumerable number of
girls still under twenty who monopolize
the conversation, reprove their parents
publicly for any careless or old fashion
ed form of speech, and whose opinions
are law and gospel in the household;
while the parents stand humbly in the
background, half in awe and half in
wondering admiration, upon the brillian-
cy Of their own progeny. This thorough
ly American system Of educating young
girls does not COL duce TO their early wis.,
dom or discretion. It permits them to
gain a sort of premature chaotic idea
of the surface things of life far beyond
their years, and gives them an exsgger-
ated impression of their own Importance
1t requires time and experience to enable
them to rightly estimate their own worth
or understand their own needs"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
PAIN AND Its USES.

1t is said that Sir Humphry Davy, when
boy, held the opinion that pain was no
evil; but that, when crab bit his toe while
bathing, and made him roar loud enough
to be heard half mile of, he was convert
ed to the opposite view. 1t is easy to
philosophize upon pain and other bodily
or mental evils when we are free from
them, but a brief experience OF their
power is apt to refute all our calm rea-
soning.
1t is true, nevertheless, that our very
existence depends upon our sensibility to
suffering. A temporary suspension of
this constituencies may be attended with
fatal effects. There is awell-authenticated
story Of drover in England who went
to sleep one winters night on the plat
form of lime-kiln, with one leg upon the
masses Of limestone piled up for burn
ing during the night When he awoke in
the morning, he found his foot burned
off above the ankle. 1t was thought that
he had been rendered insensible to pain
by the carbonic acid from the decompos-
ing limestone; but, whatever may have
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
HOW TO DESTROY ENEMIES.

To march through an enemy's country,
burning and destroying is not always
the mark Of great general. He is truly
great who knows how to obey Christ's
command regarding our enemies and
those that persecute us.
Nangfee, Emperor of China, being told
that his enemies had raised an insurrec-
ton in one of the distant provinces, said,
"Come, then, my friends, follow me, and
l promise you that we shall quickly de-
stroy them" He marched forward and the
rebels submitted upon his approach. ALI
now thought that he would take the
most signal revenge, but were surprised
to see the captives treated with human
ity.
"How," cries his first minister, sis this
the manner in which you fulfill your
promise? Your royal word was given
that your enemies should be destroyed,
and behold you have pardoned all, and
have caressed somep
81 did PROMISE" replied the emperor
with generous air, "to destroy my enc
mics. have fulfilled my word; for,
see, they are enemies no longer, have
made friends of them."-Our SUNDAY
Afternoon.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26

time it footed up twelve hundred and
eighty-tbree dollars. But as the
strength of Miss Patchin's hospital
fund" increased, the physical being of
her niece weakened. Samantha was
now a hopeless invalid. Work was for
eign to her hereafter. Boarders could
no more constitute the currency basis
of Miss Patchin's scheme.
Her voice was husky with emotion,
and the tears of disappointment stood
in her eyes as she asked
Samantha, child, couldn't you sit
in chair and direct a servant how to
do, if hire one 1t seems so hard to
be obliged to abandon our plans, and
nobody can manage just as you can
so they can't"
But Samantha only answered fee
BILE oh, auDtie," and the doctor re-
piled, shocked at the heartless inquiry.
"I'm surprised you do not see that
your niece is nearing the end"
And the pastor interposed condol-
ing countenance. Miss Patchin, with
the same grief-stricken tones and tear
dimmed eye, said:
1--WE poor mortals, are never per-
mitted to realize aught but disappoint-
ment here below, Brother Jones. Oh,
sir, is it not enough to convince us of
the certainty of the future, that all here
is unsatisfactory and attended with
failure-so it is Undoubtedly tits a
wise Father that directs events-but
sometimes the way seems hard-so it
| does ~
The tones of grief assumed more
shrill sound and the tears of disap-
pointment flowed more freely as she
thought on it.
And strange to relate Brother jones'
did not remind her, that she was i'm
peaching the character of the wise Fa-
Their, by charging the failure of her
plans to Him, when she alone was re-
sponsible. He failed to tell her that
she had been guilty of wrong doing in
imposing on fellow being. And that in
reaching beyond her, to find an oppor-
tunity for benevolence she overlooked
possibility directly before her eyes.
That perhaps through that poor over
worked niece she might have sent a
glimmer of light out into the world, if
she had only endeavored to ascertain
how. Instead, he went away saying to
himself
"What good woman is Sister
Patchin In speaking of her trouble
she manifests so much feeling"
JENNIE G. OWEN.
Silver Cliff, Col.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
A HINT TO sLEEpERs.

It is perfectly true that no one ever
heard of snoring savage. In fact, if the
wild man of the woods and plains does
not sleep quietly, he runs the risk of being
discovered by his enemy, and the scalp of
the snorer would soon adorn the belt OF his
crafty and more silent sleeping adversary.
In the natural state, then, "natural selec-
ton" weeds out those who disturb their
neighbors by making night hideous with
shores. With civilization, however, we
have changed all this. The impure air
of our sleeping-room induces all man
ner of catarrhal affections. The nasal
passages are the first to become affected.
Instead of warming the inspired air on it's
way to the lungs, and removing from
it the dangerous impurities with which
it is loaded, the nose becomes INSTRUCTED.
A part of the air enters and escapes by
way OF the mouth. The veil OF the palate
vibrates between the two currents-that
through the mouth and the one still pass
ing through the partially CLOSED nostrils
like torn sail in the wind. The snore,
then, means that the sleeper's mouth is
partially open, that his nose is partially
closed, and that his lungs are in danger
from the air not being properly warmed
and purified. From the continual opera
ton Of these causes-the increase OF i'm
pure air in sleeping rooms and permitting
habitual snorers to escape killing and
scalping-some scientists has predicted
that in the future all men (and women,
tool will snore. It goes along with the
decay of the teeth and bald-headedness
-Fireside
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
HONESTY IN NORWAY AND
SWEDEN.

Had Abraham Lincoln lived in Nor
way and Sweden, probably he would nev-
or have been known to the world as "Hon-
est Abe" because there honesty is SO
common as TO attract no attention. Trav-
elers tell us that at the railway restau-
rants passengers help themselves to what
ever they wish, and then report what
they have eaten, and pay for the same
without any questions being asked. A
persons word is always taken, and he is
never watched. On the steamboat after
each zeal, traveller writes down IN a
large book what he has eaten. When
ready to go ashore, he calls waitress,
who affixes price to each item, adds up
the amount, receives the money and puts
il in her pocket. When filled, she
gives the money without counting to the
stewardess. Instead Of making them
careless, they are more scrupulously
honest than any other nation in the
world.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
CHERISH YOUR oIRLHooD.

Dear girls; don't be SO often wishing
you were grown-up women, that you will
neglect your girlhood. In the rush and
hurry of these fast times there is danger
that you will reach and strain after
"young ladyhood" too much. Be girls
awhile yet. Be tender, joyous, loving,
obedient and industrious. Womanhood,
with its privileges and power, its burdens
and trials, will come soon enough.
On this point one has wisely said:
Swat patiently, my children, through
the whole limit of your girlhood. Go
not after womanhood; let it come to you.
Keep out of public view. Cultivate re-
finement and modesty. The cares and
responsibilities of life will come soon
enough. When they come You will meet
them trust as true women should. But
OIL be not SO unwise as to throw away
your girlhood. Rob not yourself of this
beautiful season which wisely spent, will
brighten all your future life
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
OVER-GRoWN BOYS


There can scarcely be more refined
method OF cruelty than that of ridiculing
the awkward movements of boy whose
superfuity of flesh or stature prevents
his moving gracefully among his more
naturally formed brothers and sisters,
and yet fathers and mothers, as we'll as
thoughtless friends or playmates, are
often guilty of thus wounding the feel
ings of the overgrown boy who is so I'M
fortunate as to have been born among
them. Even the attainment to a noble
and perfectly symmetrical stature (which
the years always bring to such one, if
his health does not fail under the extra
imposition of labor which his mistaken
friends require of him), cannot atone for
the cruel hurts he thus receives. If he is
a sensitive child, they rsnkle in his very
soul, and do untold harm there.
Some parents are in such haste for
their children to become men and wo.
men that they force them on, hasten
their development in every possible way,
and il nature favors them by bestowing
more than ordinary growth in bone
and flesh upon any of their children they
are reioiced to have the excuse to impose
duties and exact behavior according to
the number of pounds avoirdupois, when
in reality they are no standard to go by.
Too many children are thus defrsuded Of
their childhood, and who is prepared to
answer to such charge, by and by, when
it shall be brought against him?- Mary
Sweet Potter, in Good Housekeeping.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26

been the cause OF this strange torpor, he
paid the penalty with his life, for he died
fortnight after in Bristol hospital, in
consequence of his injuries.
Without the warning due to pain, life
would be series of similar disasters
The crab might have eaten off young
Davy's foot, and the wound might have
been the death of him, to the eternal detri-
ment Of chemical science; or, if he had
escaped the greedy crustacean, he would
probably have persisted from the inhala-
ton of carbureted hydrogen at the time
when the terrible oppression in his chest
warned him of the risk he was running,
which. as it was, very nearly proved
fatal.
Children, like other young animals
soon learn to profit by the lessons of pain
The burnt child breads the fire, accord
ing to the old saw; and a kitten does not
touch the hot stove more than once with
its paw. Lord Kaimes, however, main
tanned that some direct instruction in this
line was desirable for the young folk, and
advised parents to cut the baby fingers
"cunningly" with knife, that the idea
OF suffering might be associated with the
shining blade before the youngIing had
unwittingly done itself worse harm there
with. II it were not for the pain, the
child would be in danger of whiting it's
fingers instead of the stick, or burning
them instead of the seductive match it
delights to get hold of.
We referred in the last number of the
Neaos, to the necessity of limiting mus.
cular exercise to the amount that the
sensation of exhaustion indicates to be a
sufficient strain upon the strength for the
time; and this suggests another import
ant use Of pain. Without the warning
ourselves from over-exertion, wearing
out our muscles with no more care or
thought than we do the tools we use.
There would be a like risk in eating
and drinking. Some people are not
prompt enough to heed the admonitions
against gluttony and drunkenness which
stomach and brain now give them. II
these admonitory pains were unknown,
we should be liable to dangerous excuses
from the temptations of appetite. The
epicure would be dyspeptic before he
knew it, and his digestion might be hope.
lessly ruined before it occurred to him
to call in the doctor How rarely, in
deed, would the doctor ever be called in
season, were it not for the hint that our
painful sensations give us of the impera-
tive necessity for his services. Pain is
the sentinel that watches perpetually over
our safety, and gives notice of the first
approach of the diseases which are our
worst enemies. Remove the sentinel and
the foe would surprise us before we were
aware that he was near. and would be in
full and fatal possession of the very cita-
del Of our existence before we could
make the least attempt to resist bim.
This warder on the walls of our human
habitation may often annoy us by waking
us from our comfortable sleep and pleas
ant dreams, but he is loyal servant and
faithful friend in rousing us to defend
ourselves against the insidious ills that
flesh is heir to.-Populdr Science Ne,cs.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
THE LANGUAGE OF TREES.

The following (says a London paper)
are the names OF the trees planted in St
Peters churchyard with symbolicaI de-
scriptions:
Cedar of Lebanon-It being the tree
selected by Solomon for building the
temple of Jerusalem.
Weeping Willow-A native of Baby
Ion, and the trees on which the unhappy
Israelites hung their harps when they
bemoaned the loss of Jerusalem.
Sycamore-Thetr tree on which Zaccheus
climbed to see Christ on his way to Jeru-
salem.
Thorn-To remind us of the crown of
thorns.
Aspen-it being the tree of which the
CROSS is said to have been formed.
Lime The principal papyraceous tree
of the ancients, and on the bark of which
the Scriptures were first written.
Ash-Esteemed sacred tree in an.
Gent times, and the one to which the
serpent is said to have strong antipa-
thy.
Plane-The favorite tree of the Greeks,
and under whose shade the Athenian
philosopher retired to study.
Birch-The tree of which the victors
made their f1asces
Elm-The funeral of the Romans, and
the coffin timber of Britons.
Cypress-The funeral tree of all ma
tions.
Yew-"The sacred yew, SO feared in
war;" and tree consecrated and dedi-
Gated to the grave.
Arbor Vitae Although the tree of life,
it shows that Immortality is not the only
lot of any thing terrestrial.
Holly-As being used in the decora-
ton of churches at sacred festivals.
Box-The plant formerly used in the
feast of the publication of the blessed
Virgin.
Poplsr-A plant held sacred by the
Romans.
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COUNTERFEIT JEWELS.

Artificial precious stones have become
an important article OF trade. The pro-
ducts Of some OF the shops would almost
deceive an expert, but the test of hard
ness is still infallible. The beautiful
"French PASTE" from which imitation
diamonds are made, is kind of glass with
a mixture of oxide of lead. The more
OF the latter the brighter the stone, but
also the softer, and this is serious de-
feet. The imitation stones are now so
perfectly made, and SO satisfactory to
those who are not very particular, that
their influence begins to be felt in the
market for real stones. By careful SO
lection of the ingredients, and skill and
manipulation, the luster, color, fire and
water OF the choicest stones are to the
eyes OF the lsyman fully reproduced.
There are few delicacies of color that
cannot be perfectly given, for they de-
pend on some undiscoverable peculiari-
ties OF molecular arrangement, and not
on chemical composition; but the person
who buys the stones know nothing of
that. Yet Sidot, French chemist, has
nearly reproduced these peculiarities, in
Guiding the dichroism of the sapphire
with composition of which the base is
phosphate of lime. Two other French
chemists, Frenzy and Fell, have produced
rubies and sapphires having the same
composition with the genuine stones and
nearly equal hardness Popular Science
MOnthIn
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-26
LIST AND THE GEAR NIcHoLA

LISZT AND THE GEAR NICHOLAS.
During Liszt's second visit to st.
Petersburgh the Ozsr Nicholas invited
him to soiree at the Winter Palace, and
in the course of the evening asked him
to play. An imperial request being equiv
alent to command, Liszt sat down to
the piano and commenced one of his
brilliant Hungarian rhapsodies. The
Gear, instead of bestowinR that exclusive
attention upon the performance to which
Liszt was accustomed, and which, in fact,
he exacted from his audiences in private
as well as in public, no matter of what
exalted elements they might happen to
be composed, entered into an animated
conversation with one Of his generals,
talking in his usual and by no means SUBJ
dued tone of voice. Liszt went on play
ing for minute or so, at the expiration
of which time, seeing that the Emperor
was not listening to him, he suddenly